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While the real estate market on the North Shore was generally stable over the past year, sales at the top end have recently been brisk and the highest assessments continue to push into the stratosphere.

The home with the highest assessment on the North Shore is an 11,000-square-foot house on the waterfront in West Vancouver’s West Bay neighbourhood.That house at 3330 Radcliffe Ave.

jumped over the $24 million mark to clock in at an assessment of $24.4 million — up from its previous value of $23.6 million.

The second highest assessed property — a home overlooking the West Vancouver waterfront at 2588 Bellevue Ave. — also saw a hike in its value to $23.3 million from a previous assessment of just under $21 million.

Although there were some properties in the upper echelons that fell in value, generally the assessments for homes favoured by investment bankers, developers, movie moguls and wealthy immigrants is continuing to rise.

While not many sales were completed in the highest bracket of luxury SeeVictoria page 5

Lower Lonsdale BIA plans put on hold BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

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The Lower Lonsdale Business Association is shelving plans to form a Business Improvement Area for LoLo — at least for now.

The association was in the process of getting City of North Vancouver council’s approval to set up the BIA, which would have the power to levy all

LoLo business owners 89 cents per $1,000 in assessed value and then spend it on LoLo events, marketing and beautification.

But, with a major report on the city’s vision for the central waterfront due in early February, the association is taking a wait-and-see approach to how a BIA would fit into a revamped waterfront,

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Parking beats tennis, for now Study stalls return of Gordon Ave. courts

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West Vancouver’s tennis community showed no love for the district’s about-face on three Gordon Avenue courts that will continue to serve as a parking lot following council’s decision Monday.

Council decided to temporarily convert the courts to parking in 2011 to accommodate traffic during the construction of the Westerleigh Retirement Residence.

Despite the Westerleigh opening its doors in September 2013 and boasting 40 public parking stalls, council voted 5-2 to forego the conversion costs, much to the chagrin of a host of West Vancouver racquet swingers.

“You might not have sworn on a bible, but you gave an assurance,” said Rev. Trevor Fisher.

During his own midday survey, Fisher said he counted 34 cars parked on the former tennis courts and 34 empty stalls at the Westerleigh.

While he recognized his remarks might be unpopular, Mayor Michael Smith said council must have the ability to take new information into accountant when making a decision.

“This is a fluid municipality, we have to have the flexibility to make decisions based on the facts at the time,” he said. “The facts now have changed.”

The parking lot is currently the subject of a study set to wrap up in late spring. Until council has a long-range plan of

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“What’s the point of spending $120,000 to convert them, and then six months from now changing it?” he asked.

The district has two problems that have converged on the $10 million site, according to Smith.

“We really do have a parking problem,” he said.

“We also have a problem with tennis.”

Keeping a promise should outweigh both those concerns, according to Coun. Mary-Ann Booth.

“In an election year, this may come across as self-serving, but I feel strongly that in this case, the public’s trust outweighs the inconvenience caused by the net loss of some 20-30 parking spots,” she said. “With regards to the

promise: it was expressed, it was specific, and it was unconditional.”

Booth and Coun. Nora Gambioli were the two backers of a defeated motion that would have seen the parking stalls replaced with baselines and service boxes.

“I want to start by saying a mea culpa. I think we, as a district, should have been on this a year ago,” Gambioli said, provoking murmurs of agreement from many of the tennis players in attendance.

Gambioli suggested the district use resources to improve courts that are “not right in the centre of the worst parking problem in West Vancouver.”

Council received a stinging rebuke from real estate agent Rush Hanson.

Hanson helped broker a deal at Stonethro after assuring the buyer the parking lot was temporary.

“I question whether or not she even would’ve bought the property if she had known there was going to be a parking lot across the street,” she said.

Besides a possible dip in the buyer’s property value, the issue of council’s credibility is on the line, according to Hanson.

“My concern as a Realtor is: Can we count on the word of the city hall?” she asked.

Don Evans was one week from moving into his $1.4 million Stonethro home when he addressed council.

As an auto broker who looks at thousands of cars each week, Evans said living across from a parking lot is particularly unappealing.

“Would I have ever bought a piece of property opposite a parking lot that reminds me daily of cars that I have to deal with,

phone calls that I should have returned? Is that my retirement home?” he asked.

The discussion also touched on the larger issue of tennis in West Vancouver.

The West Vancouver Tennis Club has a two anda-half year waitlist, according to Keith Bower.

Coun. Craig Cameron agreed.

“I know how precious tennis court time is, and I frequently go to North Vancouver because I can’t find anything in West Vancouver,” Cameron said.

While tennis may have lost the Gordon Avenue skirmish, the community’s larger struggle to see the game spread across the district will ultimately be successful, according to Coun. Bill Soprovich.

“Certainly tennis will come out of this better than what it is today,” he said.

History buffs protest ship stern’s demise BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A group of heritage advocates is protesting the City of North Vancouver’s decision to scrap the Flamborough Head.

Council voted behind closed doors in September to spend up to $250,000 to decontaminate and remove ship stern from Lot 5.

LoLo BIA boosters await city waterfront plans

“It’s a major artifact in the city. It actually represents all the victory ships that were built — all the men and women in the community that built them, right here on our waterfront, and to commemorate all those that sailed in them and never returned,” said Ivan Leonard, protest organizer.

The North Shore Heritage Preservation Society and North Shore

Historical Society are joining in the protest.

“We’re just going to put pressure on council to reconsider their decision,” Leonard said.

But it is likely too little too late. The city only acquired the Flamborough Head to make it the centerpiece of the nowabandoned maritime museum project.

“When the funding fell through for the National

Maritime Centre, it spelled the beginning of the end for the Flamborough Head,” said Mayor Darrell Mussatto. “It’s unfortunate. I feel bad for it. We had higher hopes.”

But the city is now pursuing a new vision of the waterfront, he added.

“We heard it loud and clear that people want public open space on Lot 5 and (the stern) wasn’t going to work.”

Many artifacts from the shipbuilding days are being incorporated into the waterfront, Mussatto added.

Because of the ship’s aging cradle, it had become a safety and liability issue so council had no choice but to make the decision in camera, Mussatto said.

The protesters plan to meet at the stern on Saturday at 11 a.m.

according to Doug Ausman, business association president.

“We wouldn’t want to be in a situation where we get a BIA started up and start to do some things that might contradict or not be in step with that kind of project,” Ausman said. “Rather than ask the city to proceed with that bylaw now, let’s wait and the LLBA will proceed in step with that big city project and when the timing seems appropriate and we’ve worked out a detailed implementation first-year plan that would complement that city project, then we’ll be back to city council to ask them to give three readings to the bylaw.”

Under the legislation to set up a BIA, a majority of commercial property owners must register their opposition with the city in order to stop the process.

Council watcher Kerry Morris had spearheaded a campaign to get businesses to reject the BIA but that’s not why the association is holding off, Ausman said.

“It’s really upsetting — the thought that people are going to say that, and that opponents are going to say ‘We won,’” Ausman said. “While it’s annoying as hell and frustrating, we fully believe it would pass if the balloting went ahead.

“We’re extending our work and we’ll be back on the agenda at some point,” Ausman added. “It could be as long as a year, but that’s OK with us if it’s done right.”

Mayor Darrell Mussatto, who was in favour of LoLo having a BIA, said it will be up to LoLo business to decide the future of any potential BIA. “Who knows what may happen with the business association.They may not want to carry on at all,” he said. “These people trying to put it together are all volunteers.They came to us to do this.We’re basically in their hands. If they don’t want to do it, the city can’t force a BIA or stop it. It’s up to them.”

As for the vision for the waterfront that has been compiled from input from more than 1,000 people, that will come before council on Feb. 3 and it’s not to be missed, Mussatto said.

“I’ve seen some stuff and it’s pretty exciting,” he said.

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“It set new precedents for price levels.”

Hasman said the higher end of the market in West Vancouver is predominantly being driven by buyers from China, who are generally families who value the area’s reputation for safety and excellent schools.

The top 25 assessed homes in West Vancouver ranged from values of $12 million to more than $24 million, with the biggest increases in value in areas like the Altamont waterfront and Bellevue Avenue.

Waterfront areas like Radcliffe, Bellevue and Travers avenues, and Erwin and Marine drives continued to host addresses of the highest-assessed homes.

In the District of North Vancouver, the highest assessment went to a Dollarton waterfront home at 682 Beachview Dr., assessed at $9.8 million.

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The highest assessed values in the district ranged from $4.5 million to $9.8 million.

In the City of North Vancouver, well over half of the highest assessed properties were condos, including several in Lower Lonsdale highrises on Victory Ship Way and Esplanade, as well as towers at Victoria Park West.

The development of Lower Lonsdale has “really changed all the dynamics,”

said Suzanne Miscisco, a real estate agent with Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.

“It has become a more desirable location.”

Some buyers are coming from places like Europe, she added. “They are used to living in an apartment.”

The highest assessed property in the city was a penthouse condo suite at 683 Victoria Park West, valued at just over $2 million.The highest values in the city ranged from $1.7 million to just over $2 million.

Both Miscisco and Hasman say there’s lots of activity in the higher end of the market now with a sweet spot between $1.5 million and $3 million in North Vancouver and between $2 million and $6 million in West Vancouver.

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y now you’ve likely heard of the Edmonton-area teen who waltzed through airport security, handed over his gunpowder-packed pipe bomb to an allegedly befuddled screener, and took a plane to Mexico.

According to court transcripts, Skylar Murphy was planning to blow up a shed and, as we all do from time to time, forgot his explosive in a camera bag.

The RCMP believed he had no plans to blow up the airplane. A judge agreed, admonishing the teen about the dangers of Mexican jail before slapping his wrists to the tune of $600.

Murphy’s story is so stupid it almost must be the truth, but one wonders if he’d be so readily believed if he’d been wearing a turban or had a name like Farooq.

Winnipeg doctor Ahmed Farooq was tossed from his flight in Denver

for reciting his evening prayers. Other passengers have run into trouble for leaning on crutches that set off the metal detector, packing shampoo, or mentioning the movie Battlefield Earth (a colossal bomb).

We hope Murphy has a fruitful, bombfree future.

The security personnel at the Edmonton International Airport are another matter.

The screener who dealt with Murphy tried to give him back the pipe bomb, not recognizing it as an explosive despite its fuse.

The men and women charged with keeping the skies safe then waited four days to inform the RCMP. Screeners have a hard, often thankless job, but we need an investigation to discover if this was a rare lapse in judgment, or institutional incompetence.

Nonagenarian a medical marvel Olga Kotelko is weird, just plain weird — in the nicest, most incredible, let’s pull out all the stops and say phenomenal way.

This is not just mediaspeak phenomenal. We throw such words around.

But Olga intrigues and puzzles medical science.

She puzzles herself.

Olga, a retired West Vancouver teacher and a regular at the West Vancouver swimming hole, as I call the Aquatic Centre, is so phenomenal, so unique, that the Today show from New York recently sent a crew to shoot a segment on her — which took 10 hours at the Richmond Oval.

In that time Olga could set many world records.

That’s what she does. Set records.

Olga holds a bushel of world track-and-field records for her age group.

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She turns 95 on March 2. She’s the Dal Richards of the athletic world (Dal, another incredible Vancouver treasure, turned 96 this month, still leading his orchestra).

High jump, long jump, shot put, javelin throw, hammer throw, 100-metre dash, Olga seems to have done it all. Once she strained a muscle doing the shot put. Someone

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asked: “So what did you do?” Olga replied: “I just used the other arm.”

She’s been studied, prodded, tested by researchers. There are theories but no ultimate explanation of her prowess.

It puzzles her too.

A short (five-foot), lean, well-proportioned woman, she has pride of built-up success at an age when many formerly outstanding athletes even half her age have lost their edge and shape. Clearly, time has thinned out competitors in her age group, but many people decades younger couldn’t match her feats.

Adding to the puzzlement is that Olga was, to coin a phrase, a late bloomer. She didn’t enter competitive track and field until age 77.

She’s been profiled by this paper’s (versatile and funny) columnist

Andy Prest, and by the undersigned. North Vancouver writer Bruce Grierson, who wrote a long piece on Olga for the New York Times Magazine in 2010, has written a book, What Makes Olga Run? The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star andWhat She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives.

It was just released Tuesday by Random House Canada and Henry Holt and Co. in the U.S., so I haven’t read it. But for all its insights one doubts whether anyone who followed Olga’s regimen to the letter could hold a javelin to her, or duplicate her success.

It’s weird. Wonderfully weird.

••• Busy arts lady and former West Van councillor Liz Byrd warmly

recommends an unusual show — dress and costume historian Ivan Sayers’ Music & Fashions: Signs of the Times.

Byrd’s trumpeting is appropriate: This is a fashion show with extra ambition, the first in Vancouver gem Sayers’ 40-plus years accompanied by music that matches the times of the dress — from 1650 to the present — by the Donna Fishwick Piano Ensemble and Lions Gate Sinfonia under Maestro Clyde Mitchell.

Sounds like a ball, with elegant gowns to match.

It’s on Sunday, Jan. 26 at the Centennial Theatre, 3 p.m., but there’s a 2 p.m. chat that could be worth the price of admission alone.

••• Ever wonder how safe you are, sans seat belts, on

a Blue Bus or any urban bus? And what aid you can expect if you’re injured?

Last month a West Van-bound 250 Blue Bus braked sharply in heavy traffic on the Stanley Park causeway. A passenger on a side-facing seat was hurtled hard onto the barrier behind the driver. An ambulance was summoned. Some women passengers offered paper handkerchiefs to the injured and bleeding rider.

The driver, who earlier had shown thoughtful courtesy to a passenger — common on our good WV buses — offered no first aid. Calls confirmed that TransLink gives no first-aid training to drivers.

Nor do buses carry firstaid kits.

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Harper still plays to his supporters As the clock ticks ever closer to the day the federal government decides whether to give the Northern Gateway pipeline project final approval, everything Prime Minister Stephen Harper has to say about the subject will increasingly be analyzed to the point of silliness.

Take his appearance in B.C. last week, when he appeared in front of a business-friendly audience and took softball questions from a business group’s CEO (heaven forbid that an actual journalist be allowed to ask any questions).

There was no real news generated, but his comments on the pipeline garnered headlines and television coverage. But his comments were cautious and almost elliptical in nature and added about as much clarity to the government’s position as results when you shake a bottle of muddy water to see things more clearly.

Common wisdom holds that Harper wants the pipeline to be built, but the issue has become such a political hot potato there

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View from the Ledge is rising speculation his government may ultimately bail on the project. And since no one but Harper knows the answer to what he’s going to decide, everything he says about it is pored over like the proverbial tea leaves.

In Vancouver, the fact he said the Northern Gateway project was not a sure thing created a buzz that he was opening the door to bolt on it. But, really, what did anyone expect him to say?

Of course, he has to stress the need for strong environmental standards attached to the project.

Not to do so would invite condemnation from all sorts of quarters.

Instead of overanalyzing his noncommittal comments about the pipeline, it makes more sense to examine his style of governing and how his government has handled various hot button issues.

It has become very apparent over the years that Harper shapes policies that are favored by his well-defined voter base. It is not an approach aimed at gaining the support of a majority of the public, but instead is designed to maintain the roughly 40 per cent of the electorate that will keep him in power.

Faced with a divided political opposition, Harper knows full well that even if opinion polls show that 60 per cent of the population oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline (recent polls shows the project is still opposed by a majority in B.C., but that figure has shrunk), that’s not enough to decide an election.

In the last federal election, Harper’s Conservatives took more than 45 per cent of the popular vote in B.C. and 21 or 36 ridings in the province. Only one of the party’s victories

— Vancouver Island North — was even remotely close.

The other wins were by large margins.

Despite the wellorganized opposition to the Northern Gateway pipeline, it’s hard to see much political upside attached to Harper walking away from backing the project.

It’s not as if the environmental activists and New Democrats leading the charge against the pipeline would even remotely come close to supporting him at election time were he to kill the

pipeline.

The key question to ask is whether that 45 per cent of the electorate who supported his party last time — a group of voters presumably older and less enthusiastic about environmental protection at all costs — would continue to support him if he were to turn his back on a project reviled by environmentalists, but strongly backed by the very people who put him in office in the first place.

That is the thing to keep in mind when trying to determine whether the

prime minister has got Northern Gateway’s back at the end of the day. Until he and his government make their call, trying to over-analyze his careful public musings about the matter may not count for much.

••• For the first time since she became the mayor of Surrey, Diane Watts is getting a fairly rough ride in the media (over the crime wave that has befallen her town) and questions are being posed See No Rival page 10

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Dear Editor: I have lived on the North Shore for 30 years (City and District of North Vancouver, currently in West Vancouver).

I have seen lots of change, and with it, growth, inevitably linked.

The questions facing us

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about when, or how, to say “enough is enough.”

Think back, not many years ago, when the District of North Vancouver floated the idea of 15,000 new single-family homes in the Parkway area, to be developed over 10 years — 75,000 more people, conservatively, with five people per home. Many would be heading to jobs over the Ironworkers Memorial (Second Narrows) bridge.When that idea was floated, there was zero discussion or thought given to major infrastructure to support a massive development that would

have repercussions North Shore and Metro wide.

Ridiculous. Gladly, that one died on the table. How about the current situation in the City of North Vancouver, where council seems intent on sentencing the singlefamily dwelling to death, to be replaced with yet more towers, laneway houses and suites. Really? And that will improve everyone’s quality of life? Of course not. And here’s a North Shore News quote of the year: “The first voice that I listen to is citizens who are not born yet” (West Van Coun.

Trish Panz). Again, really?

Council members across the

Shore need to listen to the people who live here now, for a reason.The North Shore is one of the most spectacular areas to live, with amenities and recreational opportunities beyond imagination. If development continues at the pace councils want, will we all be enjoying better quality of life? The answer is obvious.

More people, traffic, smaller and smaller residences, more towers, less connection to the land. More is not better, it’s just more.We are facing death by a thousand cuts. Is even one councillor listening?

Dan Bezanson West Vancouver

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now is how much, and at what cost to quality of life.

Recent developments have focused on densification, which is needed to a point.The key question never addressed is, infrastructure supporting the increase in population, in particular, major roads and bridges. Councils seem obsessed with growth and densification at any cost, pretending there is little they can do to stop it.

Guidelines dictate that each municipality must accept certain amounts of growth to play a role in Metro’s expansion.

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Dear Editor: On NewYears Eve at about 6:30 p.m., my husband, my sister and I were walking west on West 16th Street. In the dim light of the evening, we didn’t see a large dark brick planter in the middle of the sidewalk.

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ask if help was on the way.

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Moodyville to get closer OCP look BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Residents living below Third Street in Moodyville will be getting some extra attention from City of North Vancouver planners in the next few months as the city revamps and refines its draft official community plan.

The draft OCP released in December calls for the neighbourhood of primarily single-family homes to allow townhouses. But, since the public consultation typically only catches a fragment of the community at large, council members thought the neighbourhood ought to have a closer look when it comes to the substantive change contained in the proposed OCP. The neighbourhood has already had to contend with massive change courtesy of the Low Level Road project and expansion of coal and grain handling facilities on Port Metro Vancouver’s waterfront property.

Following a 7-0 vote at council Monday night, property owners between St. Patricks and Queensbury avenues will now be subject to “area

specific consultation” by way of a direct notification of potential OCP changes from the city, a city-run information session and a mail-out survey that lays out a number of options for the neighbourhood and offers a various chances to respond.

This process is over and above the consultation the rest of the city is invited to be a part of through the regular CityShaping OCP review, including public information sessions, focus groups, online and paper feedback forms, a town hall meeting and public hearing, which are expected to roll out over the next four months with a council vote on the OCP in June.

Council had also considered a plebiscite — a legal but non-binding vote — to gauge what individual homeowners thought about Moodyville at an estimated cost of $70,000.

That proved too pricey for council. By contrast, the survey method is expected to cost less than $5,000 and fit within the existing OCP budget.

“I think the way we’re going here . . . is more costeffective and will, in essence, achieve the same thing — that of taking the pulse of

the people,” said Coun. Rod Clark, who had originally asked for a plebiscite.

Clark asked whether in the meantime a similar process could be carried out for the rest of the city’s single-family neighbourhoods, since the draft OCP calls for allowing all single-family homes to contain both secondary suites and coach houses.The prevailing concern, Clark said, is that assessments will go up for all of the property owners, whether they have or plan to have a coach house and secondary suite or not.

“If that is indeed the case, they will be paying more taxes unless council, in its infinite wisdom, drops the mill rate, which in my experience, we have not, ever,” he said.

Clark pledged to make a motion calling for a similar staff report with similar options for council to consider at a future council meeting.

But that is the type of issue the pubic is currently being asked to comment on as part of the feedback period on the draft OCP, Mayor Darrell Mussatto said.

“To be very clear, the

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OCP is out for public consultation now. Many of those issues that you raise are exactly what staff want to hear (about) and that’s what we’re expecting to hear from the public,” Mussatto said.

One area resident came to the council meeting to

give them a head start on their enhanced consultation.

Jan Malcolm, a Fourth Street resident, said the city needs to focus on existing problems in the neighbourhood — inadequate bus service, a shortage of street parking and the use of neighbouring

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“Something needs to be done before you start making these broad policy considerations because it’s just a disaster looking for a place to happen,” she said.

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INQUIRING REPORTER North Shore Rescue’s volunteers sometimes comb the backcountry for lost hikers with scant evidence, relying on experience and patterns to guide their search. Installing cameras may mean losing a little of the serenity and solitude we associate with the North Shore’s playground. Still, knowing something as simple as which way a hiker turned could mean the difference between life and death. With or without the cameras, the volunteers face a hard job.

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John Matibig North Vancouver “Yeah, I think it’s good to have cameras.”

Would you support putting cameras at North Shore trailheads?

Tom Roper North Vancouver “Maybe in some of he busier spots, but not farther out.”

Andrea Klockenbrink North Vancouver “I don’t see it as problematic, but I spend 10 months of my year in China where there’s a police security camera on every corner.”

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John Robertson North Vancouver “Yes. I’m a foreigner.

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Lighthouse Park a gem in WV’s crown From page 6 communications director, explained: “What is Blue Bus’s legal liability in a case like this? The answer is that it is handled as with any other vehicle accident through the Insurance Corp. of B.C.” My translation: Drivers are advised that providing help could attract legal liability.

So when drivers don’t attend to the injured in such incidents, that’s why.

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••• I’ll give town hall a New Year’s resolution, no charge: Lighthouse Park is a gem in the West Vancouver crown. So resolve to scour the $135-million-odd budget for cash to fix the damned entrance.

The road “surface” is a disgrace, a roller coaster of potholes that demand a dead-slow crawl by vehicles and,

on rain-soaked days, are deep enough to drown walkers’ small dogs.

Visitors attracted by the park’s fame must be jolted, literally, by this mess.

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No rival for mayor’s seat From page 7 about her political future.

But there doesn’t seem to be any natural rival to challenge Watts for the mayoralty job, so unless she decides to leave on her own terms it’s hard to see her forced out, even as her town grapples with the crime issue.

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Family seeks support for memorial path JULES KNOX newsroom@nsnews.com

A local family is hoping to create a new path in memory of their son.

The Boyer family is raising funds to reroute a section of the Baden Powell trail that winds along busy Indian River Road for about 500 metres. They want to build a new path in the forest that would keep hikers safely away from traffic.

The $125,000 plan includes the costs of a 10metre walking bridge over Francis Creek, two smaller bridges and clearing part of an old skid road. Parts of the trail would also be resurfaced and some wooden stairs would be built, said Susan Rogers, section manager of parks planning, construction and environmental services.

As the communities of Woodlands, Sunshine and Cascades have grown, vehicular traffic on Indian River Road has increased, said David Boyer, Sr. “More and more hikers are also using that road, and they don’t realize how busy it is,” he said. “Quite frankly, it’s unsafe.”

After their son took his life in February 2013, the Boyers came up with the project as a lasting tribute. David Boyer, Jr., who battled mental illness, was always happiest on the North Shore’s local trails, his father said.

Boyer Jr. dreamed of charting a map along the ridge trails of the Indian Arm, Mount Seymour and down to the Indian River, his father said. He was always in the mountains with his friends.

“He had topographical maps all across his room,” he said.

“They say that exercise

helps one in dealing with depression,” Boyer said.

“He instinctively gravitated towards that.”

The local community has been overwhelmingly supportive, Boyer said, adding that many volunteers are keen to participate in the project.

Engineers are offering their time to make bridge plans this month, Boyer said.

If the funds are raised, volunteers will clear the brush and build the trail over the summer. “Our goal is to have the trail completed by Sept. 26, in time to commemorate his birthday,” Boyer said.

The Boyer family is raising funds under the parks gift donation program, which allows the public to raise funds for specific projects, Rogers said. “Community groups and schools and different people come forward with ideas to fundraise for projects, and in many cases they’re successful,” she said.

The project doesn’t need to go to public consultation, because it has been on the district’s to-do list for a while, Rogers said.

If the Boyer family can’t raise enough money, the project could continue to sit on the funding list for the future, she said.

There’s also a possibility that council might offer to supplement a funding shortfall depending on how much money is raised, she said.

The parks department is making requests for funding on a number of capital projects in January, and the Baden Powell trail will be included, Rogers said.

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It doesn’t usually get shut down in winter because it’s at a lower elevation and so many hikers use it year-round, she said.

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LHASA DE SELA “Among Ms. de Sela’s legions of devoted fans were many of her fellow musicians.“Her melodies are hypnotic,” the Canadian singersongwriter Feist told The NewYork Times in 2005.

“There’s something about her voice: you can tell her feet are planted on the ground, and she’s not even moving — maybe she’s just holding her arm out in front of her — and she’s just singing from the marrow of her bones..”

— from NewYork Times obituary ‘Lhasa de Sela, Singer Who Crossed Borders, Dies at 37’

by Peter Keepnews (Jan. 7, 2010).

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It was supposed to run for one night only, but two years and more than a dozen performances later Danse Lhasa Danse continues to fill theatres.

“The reaction was so strong,” creator PierrePaul Savoie says of the multi-arts production’s debut performance at the 2011 Coup de Coeur Francophone music festival in Montreal.

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“There is a lot of meaning in it,” he continues. “That’s why I think it’s still on.”

The show melds music and dance in a tribute to NewYork-born, Montrealbased folk singer and musician Lhasa de Sela, who died of breast cancer on New Year’s Day 2010 at the age of 37. Following performances in Toronto, Montreal, a tour of Quebec and the Maritime provinces, Danse Lhasa Danse is making its first tour ofWestern Canada this month. It stops at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on Jan. 18 as part of the annual PuSh International Festival of the Performing Arts. Savoie, the artistic director of Montrealbased PPS Danse, will be giving a pre-show talk to introduce his muse.

Commonly known by her first name alone, Lhasa

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was raised in Mexico and the United States and divided her adult life between Canada and France. She released three albums over the course of her musical career, the first of which, La Llorona, went platinum in Canada and won a Juno Award for Best Global Album in 1998.

Savoie was shocked to hear the news of her death.

“When she died it was for me a surprise because I didn’t even know she was sick.”

He was a fan of her work before her untimely passing, he says, but it wasn’t until she died that he really listened to her music in depth.Themes of love, life and death became apparent and, for Savoie, the songs conjured up images of what leaving this world might look like.

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“It touched me deeply,” he says.

So, he set out to create a tribute to Lhasa’s life and career through song, instruments and dance.

Danse Lhasa Danse features seven Canadian dancer/choreographers, four singers (Bïa, Alexandre Désilets, Alejandra Ribera, KarenYoung) and five instrumentalists — including some of Lhasa’s former bandmates.

“My goal was to make her work resonate further in time and to be able to be acknowledged by new audiences.”

Savoie estimates about half the people who have watched the show so far were unfamiliar with Lhasa going into the theatre. But they still walked away moved by the homage, he says.

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story, it’s all our stories, living and dying.”

He says Lhasa’s lyrics poetically, spiritually and philosophically answer difficult questions related to existence.

“It’s a wonderful gift to humanity because those subjects are taboo in our society,” Savoie says, “but she was able, through her music, to make us realize important matters.”

In Danse Lhasa Danse, live singers and instrumentalists take the stage to deliver their own unique renditions of the music Lhasa originally created. Songs are sung in English, French and Spanish.

Accompanying the music is dance. Several choreographers, including Savoie, have collaborated to create a diverse lineup. From See Artists page 28

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MUSIC

Shalini’s turn to shine at FNL

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These days, Shalini Kumar is firmly focused on her musical future.

A former beauty queen, she’s been awarded a number of titles over the years, including receiving a first place crown at an international beauty and talent competition in Guangzhou, China in 2012.

After that experience, which Kumar describes as an “amazing opportunity,” she decided to put the pageant world behind her and instead turn her creative energies to another of her long-held passions: music. “(I want to) focus on

what’s real to me, (on) more of an existential level, like why do I feel so heightened and in tune when it comes to creating music?Why is it so relevant to me?Why do I have these fairies or whatever whispering in my ear? All these ideas, all these inspirations, I’m focusing on that,” say the current Vancouver-based singersongwriter.

One of Shalini’s current goals is performing more and she’s set to give a solo performance tonight, Friday, Jan. 17, as the featured artist at LynnValley United Church’s Friday Night Live.

Presented weekly at 7:30 p.m., the show features music and comedy improv by Ad Libretto under the artistic direction of Alan Marriott, along with a performance by a special guest.While held at the NorthVancouver church, the shows aren’t religious, however, each week tend to focus on a positive and uplifting theme.

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perform a few of her original works, accompanying herself on the venue’s grand piano.

She plans to sing songs from her last EP, 2011’s Book of Dreams.

“FNL is more of a theatrical show where they get ideas from the audience and then make a song out of it randomly. It’s really funny and cute and charming. I think my new music now is a little bit more sad-sounding,” she laughs, “so I thought I would go back to my old EP and dig up some songs and do something a bit more happier.”

The sound Shalini is finding herself gravitating towards these days is more mature in nature, she says.

She feels as if she’s evolved since her last recording project, which reflected more folk-pop leanings.

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CALENDAR From page 15 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922 Out in the Open: Watercolour landscapes painted around GreaterVancouver by Edna Bardell and photographs from remote and exotic places by David Scott Perrigard will be on display until Feb. 23.

SEYMOUR ART GALLERY 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com Air: An annual juried discovery exhibition for new and emerging artists will run until Feb. 1.

Poetry Meets Art: An afternoon of poetry inspired by the artwork from the Air exhibition Saturday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m.

SILK PURSE ARTS CENTRE 1570 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver.Tuesday to Sunday, noon-4 p.m. 604925-7292 silkpurse.ca Flow: A series of brushless painted works by Cory Kinney will be on display until Jan. 26.

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CULTURE

Exploring pictures of a floating world Layers of meaning in Japanese Woodblock prints ■ Ukiyoe Spectacular: JapaneseWoodblock Prints from the 1800s, WestVancouver Museum, Until March 22. For more information visit westvancouvermuseum. ca/exhibitions/current_ exhibition.

JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

The thin membrane separating the two worlds rips under jagged fingertips.

A towering skeleton has just interrupted a murder, and for a moment the killer and the leering embodiment of mortal dread meet, eyeball to eye socket.

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artists spent the better part of three centuries crafting woodblock prints, called ukiyo-e.

Loosely translated as “pictures of the floating world,” ukiyo-e is a record

of Japanese esthetics and censorship between 1603 and 1867.

The complexity of the work intimidated West Vancouver Museum’s Kiriko Watanabe, who

initially turned down a chance to curate the show.

“I didn’t feel I had enough knowledge,” she explains.

Watanabe made several trips to Tokyo, learning

more and more about the art form through scholar and ukiyo-e collector Inagaki Shinichi.

“Every time I visited he would spend hours and hours showing his prints

and describing what they are and describing a lot of information behind them,” she says.

Shinichi and Watanabe are co-curators of Ukiyoe Spectacular, running until March 22.

The prints feature sorcery and bandits, gods and geishas, but they also have deeper meanings buried amid intricate details.

“Each print has so much meaning and these meanings are often given by some of the visual cues embedded in the design,” Watanabe says.

To illustrate her point, Watanabe discusses a print entitled Fukusuke.

“If you look at his face closely, the eyebrows are made of brushes, the eyes are blowfish, the nose is a letter ‘fu’ in Japanese, and the mouth is a decorative string,” she explains. “All of those relate to the word ‘fuku.’”

Fuku means happiness or fortune in Japanese.

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CULTURE

PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING New William Griffin Community Recreation Centre What:

The District of North Vancouver in association with the North Vancouver Recreation Commission is planning to replace the existing William Griffin Community Recreation Centre (851 W. Queens Road). This public information meeting is your opportunity to view the draft building design, floor plans and parking redesign, and discuss the proposal with District staff and the architects, in person.

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From page 19 And if you look very closely, you can also see that the creases of the boy’s kimono form the letters of his name.

“It’s very, very complicated, and even a native Japanese who speaks the language . . . would have to look hard to see these cues,” she says.

The print was likely issued at the beginning of a new year to usher good luck into a household, according to Watanabe.

Despite many of the prints dating back more than 150 years, the colours remain vibrant.

“The middle-Edo period is considered to be the golden time for producing Ukiyoe,” Watanabe explains. “The designs had reached their highest level.”

Some historians trace the origins of the woodblock prints to the eighth century.

In his book Ukiyo-e:The Art of the Japanese Print,

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author Frederick Harris suggests woodblock cutting was used to carry Buddhist literature, enabling the religion’s sweep across Japan.

The black ink was eventually rounded out with bright pigments harvested from the safflower.

Like rock ‘n’ roll posters that are better than the bands they promote, much of ukiyo-e was banners advertising kabuki theatre, sumo, and events at bars and brothels.

Later renamed Tokyo, Edo was home to a thriving class of merchants enjoying peace and prosperity as the age of the samurai came to an end.

While the Tokugawa shogunate is often credited for presiding over a peace that marked the end of an era characterized by warring clans and Mongol invasions, the ruling family instituted censorship over the arts in the 1840s.

Ukiyo-e artist Santô Kyôden was handcuffed for 50 days after penning

a light novel entitled The DaytimeWorld of the Brothel.

His publisher was also fined half his net worth.

According to writer and researcher John Fiorillo’s work, Viewing Japanese Prints, the punishment was intended to intimidate all writers.

Artists were forbidden from depicting many typical ukiyo-e subjects, including kabuki actors.

“To get around this, Ukiyoe designers started to use animals in place of humans,” Watanabe explains.

If a spectator looked closely at the face of an ukiyo-e turtle, he might recognize the facial expression of a famous actor, according to Watanabe. An actor’s family crest is also visible on a turtle’s shell.

For Watanabe, the details are part of the pleasure.

“You have to look carefully to see what it is that you’re seeing,” she says.

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FILM

A buddy movie that’s hard to like ■ Ride Along. Directed

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Rating: 4 (out of 10) JULIE CRAWFORD ContributingWriter

When an unstoppable force meets an immovable object you get Ride Along, the seldomfunny buddy movie starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube.

Hart is the unstoppable force, naturally. He has more or less trademarked the fast-talking, highpitched tantrums made famous in his standup routines, whether he’s gabbing about fighting a much larger club bouncer or storming out on his wife, emasculated by the diaper bag over his shoulder. Here he plays Ben, a high school security guard with dreams of entering the police academy.

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August: Osage County (14A) — Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; Mon-Thur 6:45, 9:30 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.

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10:10; Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Thur 7:40, 10 p.m.

The Nut Job (G) — Fri-Sun 12:30 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.

The Nut Job 3D (G) — FriSun 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30; MonThur 7:15, 9:20 p.m.

Ride Along coasts on tired clichés From page 21

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might really need a means to impress his future brother-in-law James (that’s Ice Cube, aka immovable object). James is a seasoned Atlanta P.D. detective who is very protective of his sister (Tika Sumpter) and refuses to give the couple his almighty blessing. “I pictured you with someone who plays for the Braves or the Hawks, not the mascot,” says James. (Right! because major-league players have such a good track record when it comes to fidelity.)

Sure, he’s short (Hart is 5’2”: search for the pic of him with Shaquille O’Neal for contrast) but apparently Ben makes up for it in the bedroom. His nickname with his girl and his online gaming friends

is “BlackHammer.” But James won’t quit, calling Ben “a weenie” and “one chromosome short of being a midget.”

When Ben gets his acceptance letter from the police academy, James suggests a ride along to give Ben the chance to prove himself worthy of his sister’s hand. “Show and Prove,” is James’ mantra: “show me you’re worthy of her, and prove you’ve got what it takes.” It’s really an opportunity to make fun of Ben for the day.

James is a hard man.

The movie opens with a shootout in a busy public place, with James ignoring all the rules of engagement.

He commandeers a vehicle, but is ticked when it’s a Prius (“Man, get that bull#!@? out of here”)

and waits for the Dodge Viper truck instead. Hmm, what else? He wrecks a public market and causes panic just to prank Ben; he fantasizes about shooting Ben, and barely blinks when another suspect is shot accidentally; he ignores all orders from his stereotypically taciturn sarge; he breaks in to Ben and his sister’s apartment on several occasions.

Creepy.

We’ll put aside the irony of former N.W.A. band member Ice Cube playing someone who would trump up a charge of assaulting an officer. His character isn’t cool, he’s just cruel.

He’s unlikable. And even a hasty exposition about growing up in foster care can’t justify James’ attitude problem.

Because of this, Hart has to work overtime to give the movie some character.

Sometimes he’s annoying and sometimes Ben’s earnestness is endearing, but at least he’s working at it.The physical comedy is decent; the well-trod cop scenario is not.The boys stumble on some real criminals, some of the good guys are really bad guys, and so it goes. Action is cliché and supporting actors like John Leguizamo are handed regrettable dialogue.

“You ’aint going to like how this movie ends,” James says at one point.

No kidding.You won’t like much of the rest of it, either. Let’s hope they can get the balance right for Ride Along 2, already in the works.

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to FASHION & STYLE Fashion File MUSIC IN FASHION The Lions Gate Sinfonia presents Music in Fashion on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m. at Centennial Theatre.

Great music of historic times will accompany an impressive show of original period fashions, featuring the collection of fashion historian Ivan Sayers.Tickets: $12/$35/$39, available at centennialtheatre.com.

DRESS DRIVE Sofiabella Tween Clothing Boutique is collecting gently used party dresses for Grade 7 girls on the North Shore who don’t have the means to purchase a dress for their elementary school graduations. Dresses can be dropped of at the store, located at 3068 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver.

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North Vancouver resident Gerry-Gail Endean is the brains behind the fashion label Creampuff by GG. Her signature garment, Creampuff Girlie Boxer Shorts, combines the comfort of athletic pants with the feminine style of vintage lingerie. Featuring a ruffled trim and delicate

accent bow, they resemble modern-day bloomers.

Endean spent a decade designing costumes for theatre, film and TV, but in 2008 decided it was time for a career change. So, she enrolled in a consulting course downtown. It was while commuting to her class on public transit during a particularly hot summer that she dreamed up the idea for Creampuffs.

“I made them originally to go under dresses in the summer so I’d be comfortable,” she says, explaining many women,

herself included, experience uncomfortable “thigh-rub” when wearing skirts and dresses. And garments designed to wear underneath women’s clothing, such as slips, tend to twist and bunch, she says.

“I’ve met too many women that have worn men’s boxers all the time, just trying to be comfortable in their dresses.”

When Endean wore her prototype bloomers to class, the other female students reacted with enthusiasm.

The positive feedback made her think that perhaps she

might find success in the undergarment business.

“I wanted something breathable and something that wasn’t ugly and something that was really fun and practical to wear,” she says.

Her “aha” moment came when she found the perfect fabric — a fine mesh polyester that wicks away sweat, much like athletic apparel.

“It’s like the perfect pair of running shorts, only it’s girly and frilly,” she says of See Boxers page 25

LIONS GATE QUILTERS GUILD meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s and St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church, 2641 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

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Application to Participate in National Energy Board Public Hearing for Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC Trans Mountain Expansion Project The National Energy Board (NEB) has received an application from Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC for approval to construct and operate the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (Project).

Description of The Project The Project would expand the existing Trans Mountain pipeline system located between Edmonton, AB and Burnaby, BC. It would include approximately 987 km of new pipeline, new and modified facilities, such as pump stations and tanks, and the reactivation of 193 km of existing pipeline. There would also be an expansion of the Westridge Marine Terminal.

New pipeline segments would be added between Edmonton to Hinton, AB, Hargreaves, BC to Darfield, BC and Black Pines, BC to Burnaby, BC. Reactivation of existing pipeline segments would occur between Hinton, AB to Hargreaves, BC and Darfield to Black Pines, BC. The application can be found on the NEB website.

Participation in NEB Hearing The NEB will determine if the application is complete and if so, it will hold a public hearing.

Those who wish to participate in the NEB hearing must apply to participate. Applicants must clearly describe their interest in relation to the List of Issues for the hearing, which is on the NEB website and included in the application to participate. Those who are directly affected by the proposed project will be allowed to participate in the hearing and those with relevant information or expertise may be allowed to participate.

The application to participate is on the NEBâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at: www.neb-one.gc.ca select Major Applications and Projects then Trans Mountain Pipeline ULC - Trans Mountain Expansion Applications to participate in the NEB Hearing are due on or before noon on 12 February 2014. Individuals and groups applying to participate must provide enough information for the NEB to decide whether participant status should be granted.

Trans Mountain ULC has until 19 February 2014 to provide the NEB with comments on Applications to Participate and must provide a copy of its comments to those applicants to whom the comments apply. Applicants who received comments from Trans Mountain ULC about their Application to Participate have until 4 March 2014 to send the Board your response to Trans Mountainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments.

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If you require additional information, the NEB has appointed Ms. Reny Chakkalakal as a Process Advisor to provide assistance.

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Boxers double as accessories From page 23 the boxers.

Endean soon found she was lounging around the house in her Creampuffs and wearing them as pyjama bottoms at night.

“Creampuffs can be worn for a zillion different reasons, they’re not just underwear.

As an accessory they’re amazing,” she says.

Women can pull them on over yoga pants or bathing suits for extra coverage.

Endean even wears hers swimming. “It looks like a little ‘30s sunsuit,” she says.

In the winter months, she says the shorts provide an added layer of warmth.

Wearers might layer them over leggings paired with an oversized sweater and boots, for example.

“If you add creampuffs underneath, it adds a little dash of colour,” Endean explains, noting Creampuffs are not the type of undergarment women need to feel embarrassed of flashing to the world.

“I’ve seen people wear them even over skinny jeans with a long tunic, which is really cute.”

Endean develops two lines per year, one for spring/ summer and another for fall/ winter.The garments are all manufactured in Vancouver.

This season, Endean anticipated grey and jewel tones would be popular in fashion, so she designed her Creampuffs line in burgundy, black and ivory to complement the trend.

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Creampuff by GG are sold at Favourite Unique Gifts & Accessories at Lonsdale Quay, at select Vancouver retailers, and online at creampuffsbygg. com.They are available in plus sizes. Boxer shorts retail for $49 and Lil Bandaid tops are $36.

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Players will be awarded points for correctly answering questions and can earn Park Royal gift cards when certain game levels are reached.

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CALENDAR From page 17 Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca Textiles at the Library: Work by some ofVancouver’s finest fibre artists will be on display until March 11.

Opening reception: Sunday, Jan. 19, 2-4 p.m.

WESTVANCOUVER MUSEUM 680 17th St.,WestVancouver.

Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 604-925-7295 westvancouvermuseum.ca Ukiyoe Spectacular: Over 100 Japanese woodblock prints from the 1800s will be on display until March 22.Woodcut printmaking demonstration: Saturday, Jan. 25, 2-4 p.m. Folklore and popular customs: Saturday, Feb. 8, 2-4 p.m. Kuniyoshi’s comic prints: Saturday, March 8, 2-4 p.m.

Concerts

ANNE MACDONALD STUDIO 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.

North Shore Folk and Blues Club: Acoustic musical entertainment the third Sunday of each month, 7-10 p.m. Earle Peach and Illiteratty will be the feature act at the Jan. 19 show.

Admission: $10 at the door.

604-986-3078 CAPILANO UNIVERSITY PERFORMING ARTS THEATRE 2055 PurcellWay, North Vancouver. 604-9907810 capilanou.ca/

blueshorefinancialcentre/ Cap Classics —Young Artist Concert: 2013 New York International Artists Association prize winner Ben Su will perform a free piano recital Friday, Jan. 17, 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.

Cap Jazz Series: A tribute to Dave Brubeck with “A” Band, NiteCap and faculty guests Friday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $30/$27.

Cap Global Roots: Krar Collective will perform as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival Saturday, Jan. 25 at 10 p.m.

Tickets: $20.

CENTENNIAL THEATRE 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. 604-984-4484 centennialtheatre.com Music in Fashion — Signs of theTimes: Lions Gate Sinfonia will perform music of historic times that will accompany a show of original period fashions featuring the collection of fashion historian Ivan Sayers Sunday, Jan. 26 at 3 p.m.There will also be a preperformance chat with Clyde Mitchell at 2 p.m.Tickets: $39/$35/$12.

DEEP COVE SHAW THEATRE 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.

Intimate Evening: Jim Byrnes and special guest Babe Gurr will perform a fundraising concert Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at 8 p.m.Admission: $30.Tickets: 604-929-9456 firstimpressionstheatre.com

John Mann, lead singer and songwriter of the Celtic rock band Spirit of theWest, will perform a solo show Friday, Jan. 31 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $30/$25.

Cap Global Roots: Malian guitarist Habib Koité will perform African rhythms with tinges of modern western blues Friday, Feb. 7 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $39/$36/$25.

LYNNVALLEY UNITED CHURCH 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. 604-987-2114 lynnvalleychurch.com Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to

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NORTHVANCOUVER CITY LIBRARY 120West 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca TheYear of the Horse: The Sincere Lam Guzheng Ensemble will ring the Chinese NewYear in with a performance along with a talk about the

origins and symbols of the ancient traditionTuesday, Jan. 28, 7-8:30 p.m.

PRESENTATION HOUSETHEATRE 333 Chesterfield Ave., North Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9903474 phtheatre.org Orpheus, I Am: Bass opera singer Joel Frederiksen will accompany himself on the lute and archlute with a repertoire of 17th century musicTuesday, Feb. 4 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $30/$27.

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In this fourth volume of the Artists of British Columbia the works of 38 artists from all across the province are featured. Each one has the opportunity to provide information about themselves and their exhibition history. Some of them use this space to also discuss their approach to their art.

The collection is predominantly paintings but there are a number of other media represented, such as Isabelle Kennedy Proctor’s assemblage sculpture or Douglas Beder’s photography.

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver.Tickets: 604-9816335 kaymeekcentre.com The Canadian Brass, five brass musicians, will perform Friday, Jan. 24 at 8 p.m.

Tickets: $49/$42/$25.

Dami Ba Doost — A MomentWithYou: A group of Persian traditional musicians will perform Persian classical music Saturday, Jan. 25 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $35.

Chamber Music Concert: Pro Nova Ensemble will performWednesday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m.Admission by donation. Info: 604-921-9444 jronsley@telus.net.

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While painting may be the most popular media of choice there is tremendous variety in the approaches.

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flamenco to neoclassical ballet, from Bharatanatyam to contemporary, Savoie says the choreography has an “international flavour.”

The dancers, vocalists and musicians do not perform side-by-side, as they might in another multidisciplinary production.

Instead, Savoie strives to merge the performances into one voice by integrating the artists onstage.

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The finished production, he says, has universal appeal.

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CALENDAR From page 28 12-15, 19-22 at 8 p.m.Tickets: $18/$16.

Clubs and pubs

THE EMERALD 555 Gore St.,Vancouver.

604-559-8477 Sunday Gospel Brunch: The Sojourners, a roots, gospel and blues group, will celebrate the launch of a new year with a performance Sunday, Jan. 19 from noon to 3 p.m.Admission: $25. Proceeds will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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FERRY BUILDING GALLERY 1414 Argyle Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7290 ferrybuildinggallery.com Information Evening: An illustrated presentation for an upcoming NewYork City art tour in June led by architectural historian Christopher Pearson and visual arts coordinator of the Ferry Building Gallery Ruth PayneThursday, Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. RSVP.

CAFÉ FOR CONTEMPORARY ART 138-140 East Esplanade, NorthVancouver. MondayFriday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@ gmail.com Open Mic: Actors, musicians, poets and spoken word artists are invited to take the microphone every second and last Friday of the month from 7 to 9:30 p.m.

NewWorks: Readings of new work by local playwrights the thirdThursday of the month,

KAY MEEK CENTRE 1700 Mathers Ave.,West Vancouver. 604-981-6335 kaymeekcentre.com

Shalini hopes to have EP out in June

Movies at the Meek: The documentary Alcan Highway will be screenedTuesday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m.Tickets: $12.

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WESTVANCOUVER MEMORIAL LIBRARY 1950 Marine Dr.,West Vancouver. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca SFU Philosopher’s Café: Randall Mackinnon will moderate a discussion, Friday, Jan. 17 from 10:30 a.m. to noon on the topic:“What can the workings, wit and wisdom of jazz teach us about flourishing?” 778-782-8000 philosopherscafe.net.

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huddled up at home, penning new works.

Thematically, she’s continuing to tackle topics she hopes resonate with audiences. For instance bullying is a topic she’s written about in the past, reflecting on her experience of being victimized as a teenager in an effort to raise awareness of the issue as well as help empower other youths to take a stand.

Instrumentationwise, she’s scaling back

in her approach, using a less-complicated chord structure.

“I think simple music is the best music,” she says.

Shalini’s creative influences include Radiohead, Pixies, Mazzy Star, Nirvana, John Lennon and Billie Holiday.

To bring her new songs to the stage, she’s in the throes of launching a new band, Layla Rosa, and is scouring the Lower Mainland in search of the right players to come on board with the project.

“I have my eyes set on this phenomenally talented guitarist and songwriter who I’d love to collaborate with and perform with, and I have a good feeling it will work out,” she says.

Shalini hopes to release her next EP by June and then plans to travel to Toronto, Ont. and Los Angeles, Calif. in search of industry support.

Upcoming Friday Night Live special guests include actor Andrew Wheeler Jan. 24 and performing artist Jeff Hyslop on Jan. 31.

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Sunday,Turkey Dinner.Weekends and Holidays, our acclaimed Eggs Benny. Open for lunch or dinner, 7 days a week.

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Classic French cuisine served in an elegant and graceful setting.

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Traditional seafood and meat entrees, dressed in rich, tempting sauces, are specially featured alongside a superb selection of wines and a decadent dessert list.

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Pier 7 restaurant + bar $$$

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From eggs benny to juicy burgers during our popular brunches to our famous prime rib, hot scallop salad, clam chowder, king crab, steaks, seafood style cordon bleu. Rooms available for private parties and free parking. Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner seven days a week.View full menu www.marinasidegrill.com.

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Dart retains the Dodge “crosshair” grill, making it somewhat recognizable as an “all-American.”

With a wide front end and its cabin pushed rearward, the Dart certainly looks athletic.

The grill is narrower than on other Dodge models and the lower air intake is more prominent. Behind it, optional active shutters may be seen, helping to aid aerodynamics.

In a welcomed deviation from the norm, Dodge decided to use pianoblack accents instead of

You may imagine that it might be fun to become invisible, but you’d be wrong.

Harry Potter and his cloak of invisibility?

He’d be dead inside of ten minutes in the real world. “Yer a wizard, Harry!” Well, now you’re a pancake. Expelliarmus your way out of that one.

Invisibility might seem to be the passport to a hidden world, the perfect way to spy on your enemies and your friends, a fiendish way to pull off the perfect crime. It isn’t any one of those things. It’s just a good way to get run over.

Every day, a poorly trained army gets up after not-quite-enough sleep, absorbs a shocking amount of caffeine, and then cranks over the engine of a two-tonne killing machine. Not content with a just-the-basics level of competence, the situation is then compounded by endless distractions, from

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In this important journey, every auto manufacturer needs to have a strong presence in the compact sedan segment. Dodge hasn’t had a winner in this market in quite some time — they hope to change that by reviving a historic name: the Dart.

Not only is the Dart Chrysler’s re-entry into the compact segment, but it is also the first all-new car developed under Fiat’s leadership. Needless to say, a lot is riding on its success.

To be honest, I am puzzled by the selection of the name.The new Dart has ties to Fiat’s Alfa Romeo products but the name suggests “American” – something I can’t quite grasp yet.

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Behind the Wheel It joins the Ford Focus and Chevrolet Cruze as domestic alternatives to the long-standing leaders from abroad, namely the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic.

Design The new Dodge Dart enters the fray with sporty exterior and high tech features.The fresh look is one of the most dynamic in this segment.

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brightly coloured displays to in-car conversations.

Music pulses from the stereo. Text messages can be dictated through the Bluetooth system. The word “infotainment” is brightly displayed on every brochure, as is the phrase, “in-car entertainment.”

But to judge by the behaviour of most pedestrians in the Lower Mainland, every driver on the road is a highly focused professional with the skill of a fighter ace and the multi-tasking abilities of a trauma surgeon. Funny how as soon as you get behind the wheel, everyone’s an idiot, but when you’re on foot, everybody’s all too willing to place their lives in the hands of a stranger.

Years ago, Sesame Street taught children the proper way to cross the street. First you looked to the left, then to the right, and then to the left again before crossing. Now the preferred routine is to check your Facebook, then your text messages, and then make sure you haven’t got an email or two.

The consensus seems to be that it is the driver’s responsibility to stop, to be attentive, to watch and be careful. They’re the ones in charge of machinery: it’s up to them to watch out for the small fry. The pedestrian has a right to safe passage, and the driver has a responsibility to not hit anyone.

Broadly speaking, this is of course true. Climbing behind the wheel is an everyday, commonplace sort of thing, but it’s still not something to be taken lightly. A car can cause tremendous harm if driven without due care and attention, and a conscientious driver needs to be extra-aware of their surroundings.

Many are not.

Particularly irritating are the folks who try for a left turn on a green even though there are people already in the crosswalk.

Inevitably, they lurch to a halt in the middle of the intersection and hold up traffic, or skim by with a cheery apologetic wave as they run over your foot.

In the war between car and pedestrian, the latter’s response seems to be aggressively ignoring the former, like some sort of combat lemming. As soon as the light changes, people

step off the curb en masse — no checking to make sure it’s safe, no hesitation to allow for a car foolishly trying to sneak through an amber. The white walk sign pops up, and off we all go.

The problem seems twofold: first, drivers don’t see the seemingly invisible pedestrians; secondly, pedestrians don’t take steps to make sure they’re seen.

Blame? Oh, there’s plenty to go around, but in this particular case, blame is almost irrelevant compared to the after-effects.

According to Vancouver’s own case study on the problem, pedestrian collisions account for just two per cent of the accidents in the Lower Mainland, but nearly half of the fatal collisions.

People are vulnerable, and cars are dangerous.

In Holland, certain intersections have been designed to reflect this state of affairs. Rather than clearly designated crossing areas, bike lanes, and so on, experimental intersections ditch the signage and the lights for a free-for-all roundabout.

Sounds like a vortex of doom, right? Not hardly: because drivers slow down when faced with the unexpected, and pedestrians step off the curb with trepidation, both groups are looking out for each other. These intersections are oddfeeling places where extra attention is required, and as-such, more attention equals fewer accidents.

Of course, we can’t simply rip up all the crosswalks and hope to replicate the same effect, but there is considerable evidence to indicate that drivers ignore, or become confused by, traditional traffic separation methods like bike lanes and flashing crosswalks. A flashing crosswalk across four lanes seems a particularly ineffective device, as you can see from watching cars blissfully sail through while there are people using it, or nose-dive while the brakes are jammed on.

There are engineering solutions, from Japanesestyle all-way stops in which pedestrians have their own moment to dash across the intersection with all vehicle traffic stopped, to speed

reductions in high-traffic areas.

However, the short-term solution is perhaps a little simpler. Pedestrians and drivers can help each other out by simply remembering that either party exists and has an equal right to use the road safely and effectively.

You don’t see many pedestrians using their arms to signal their intent to cross the road at a crosswalk or intersection, but whenever such behaviour occurs, drivers

seem to respond. If eye contact is made, drivers slow down, and watch to see what the pedestrian is doing. People wave each other on. They communicate.

Especially at night, or late in the evening, pedestrians need to remember what it’s like to be in a car and simply not see someone dressed entirely in dark clothing.

It’s a frustrating, shocking experience when someone dashes out against the light, and you barely make

out the ill-lit silhouette in time.

For drivers, a little more awareness would be the best possible New Year’s resolution to tape to your dashboard and/or nail to your forehead. Too many of us drive hastily, without making the necessary double-check at a right or left turn. We don’t slow when passing a car that’s stopped while turning — often your fellow motorist might be waiting for someone you don’t see to cross.

Make the invisible visible again. Be seen if you’re a pedestrian, and learn how to see again if you’re a driver. We’re all in a hurry, but in the end, we all need to get there safely.

Brendan McAleer is a freelance writer and automotive enthusiast. If you have a suggestion for a column, or would be interested in having your car club featured, please contact him at mcaleeronwheels@gmail. com. Follow Brendan on Twitter: @brendan_mcaleer.

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the traditional chrome mouldings.

The optional Chargerinspired LED “racetrack” taillights dominate the rear of equipped models.

The Dart’s exterior dimensions are larger than the Giulietta in every way, which also translates to a roomier interior as well.

More soft-touch materials are used in the cabin than in previous Dodge compacts.

While a few hard surfaces remain, thankfully they are not in places the hand touches often.

Customers of the Dart are blessed for choice with six trim levels to choose from.The base model is known as the SE and the line-up moves up through SXT, Rallye, Aero with Limited and GT models at the top. Each model has a couple of packages and stand-alone options to further customize each customer’s Dart.

Performance With Dodge focusing on customization, there are three powerplants to choose from. Most models come

with either the 2.0-litre Tigershark I-4 or the 1.4litre MultiAir Turbo.

It’s debatable which powerplant is more fun to drive as they both produce 160 horsepower.The 1.4 does create more torque, 184 ft-lbs verses 148, but the turbo lag certainly delays the time it take kicks in.

The turbo is certainly more fuel efficient. It uses only 4.9 litres per 100kms of highway driving verses the 5.4 needed by the Tigershark.

The 2.4-litre Tigershark with MultiAir is only available on the GT model.

It makes 184-hp and 171 ft-lbs of torque.

A six-speed manual is standard on all models except the Limited. An optional six-speed auto is available, with the transmission mated to the 1.4-litre Turbo a dual dry clutch unit.

The manual transmission has a natural-feeling gate and a solid clutch. However, the ratio setup means you constantly have to change gears at lower speeds.The automatics obviously sort that whole process out for you.

Since the Dart is based on an Italian car, some may be expecting spirited handling; and they’re not wrong, in a sense.The engineers at Dodge have softened the ride a little to match the tastes of North American drivers but managed to keep confident road-holding ability.

This is the first Chrysler with electric power steering.

A good first effort as it is quick and well weighted with a tight feel.

Overall, the car feels confident though it no longer feels “Italian” and resembles more of an American-derived vehicle.

Environment The Dart was created to fit under a certain price point, but Dodge managed to squeeze in a decent level of features.

Front seats are quite comfortable for a compact sedan and provide good lateral support.The A-pillars are relatively thin and the dash is set low, giving you a great view out of the cabin and limiting blind spots.

In the back, there’s a surprising amount of room.

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and enough headroom for someone more than six-feet tall. However, only expect to comfortably carry two passengers in the rear seats.

Wind noise is limited making the cabin fairly quiet and relaxing, but some road and tire noise does creep in.

The standout feature inside the Dart is the 8.4inch touchscreen running Chrysler’s Uconnect infotainment system.This is standard on all but the base model SE.The Uconnect system is user friendly and centralizes all of the interior controls, tidying the cabin of a lot of needless buttons.

Safety is another of the Dart’s strong suits as it comes standard with 10 airbags, including side curtains.

Features The Dart ranges in price from $15,995 for the SE to $23,245 for the Limited.

Standard equipment includes projector headlamps, LED taillamps, and keyless entry.

Additional features, available as options or on higher trims, include dual exhaust, heated front seats, heated steering wheel, seven-

inch TFT reconfigurable display, rear cross traffic alert and blind spot monitoring.

Fuel efficiency numbers (litres/100 kilometres) for the 1.4-litre MultiAir Turbo with the manual transmission are 7.4 city, 4.9 highway.The 2.0-litre Tigershark with a manual sees 8.1 city and 5.4 highway.

Thumbs up The Dart represents high value with an excellent infotainment system, good handling and contemporary looks.

Thumbs down While the Dart has respectable character, its name and its heritage is mismatched — the overall feel has been compromised too much towards “American.”

The bottom line The new Dodge Dart is a youthful compact sedan that deserves a fair look in this extremely competitive segment.

Competitors Toyota Corolla The Corolla recently received a massive refresh which makes it look much younger and feel more

upscale.Toyota has become an industry leader on its reputation for quality and strong resale values.The ride and handling too, is vastly improved.

The Corolla ranges in price from $15,995 to $20,250.

Honda Civic Competition in the compact sedan market is so fierce, it forced Honda to make a significant revision to the Civic just one year after debuting an all-new model in 2012.The new Civic possesses all of the refinement and performance expected of a perennial segment leader.

With a starting price at $15,440, the Civic is one of the most affordable in this segment.

Chevrolet Cruze Introduced a few years ago, the Cruze boasts decent looks, a comfortable ride and impressive fuel economy. Fuel economy receives an even bigger boost with the addition of a turbo diesel model. It has roots in German engineering.

The Cruze starts at $15,995 for the LS, and the Clean Turbo Diesel starts at $24,945. editor@automotivepress.com

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2014 smart fortwo ED coupe Lease APR

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1.9%* $277* 39 Months

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$1,999* Downpayment

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© 2014 smart Canada, a Division of Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc. Vehicle shown is the 2014 smart fortwo electric drive coupe with optional equipment at an extra cost. Total price is based on a 2014 smart fortwo electric drive coupe, National MSRP of $26,990. Total price of $29,250 includes charges of freight/PDI of $1,495, dealer admin fee of $595, air-conditioning levy of $100, PPSA up to $50.48 and a $20.00 fee covering EHF tires, filters and batteries (taxes are extra). Vehicle options, fees and taxes extra. *Lease example based on $277 excluding taxes) per month for 39 months. Due on delivery includes down payment or equivalent trade of $1,999, plus first month lease payment, security deposit, and applicable fees and taxes. Lease APR of 1.9% applies. Total cost of borrowing is $967, total obligation s $14,356. 12,000 km/year allowance ($0.20/km for excess kilometres applies.). Lease offer based on the 2014 smart fortwo electric drive coupe. Available only through Mercedes-Benz Financial Services on approved credit for a limited time. Vehicle license, insurance, and registration are extra. Dealer may lease or finance for less. **Lease payment includes $5,000 The CEV for BC TM Point of Sale Incentive Program which provides up to $5,000 off of the pre-tax sticker price per eligible vehicle. The $5,000 included in the lease payment only applies on 39 months lease term on 2014 smart Electric Drive, selecting a shorter term may result in lower provincial subsidy for the vehicle. For full details and conditions, please visit www.cevforbc.ca. Lease payment also includes $3,000 dealer discount that is only valid on cash, finance, and lease of the 2014 smart Electric Drive. Offer ends January 31st, 2014.

Wise customers read the fine print: •, *, ‡, «, >, † The First Big Deal Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after January 7, 2014. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes.

Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. •$19,998 Purchase Price applies to 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package (29E) only and includes $7,000 Consumer Cash Discount. $23,888 Purchase Price applies to the 2014 Jeep Cherokee Sport. $19,998 Purchase Price applies to the new 2014 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package (22F+CLE) only and includes $2,000 Consumer Cash Discount. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2014 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. ‡4.29% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2014 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package model to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Examples: 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2014 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package with a Purchase Price of $19,998/$19,998 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discounts) financed at 4.29% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $114/$114 with a cost of borrowing of $3,644/$3,644 and a total obligation of $23,642/$23,642. «3.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2014 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD model to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance.

See your dealer for complete details. Example: 2014 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD with a Purchase Price of $23,888 financed at 3.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 208 bi-weekly payments of $132 with a cost of borrowing of $3,506 and a total obligation of $27,394. >3.99% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2013 Dodge Dart SE (25A) model to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2013 Dodge Dart SE (25A) with a Purchase Price of $16,880 financed at 3.99% over 96 months with $0 down payment, equals 416 weekly payments of $47 with a cost of borrowing of $2,844 and a total obligation of $19,724. †0.0% purchase financing for 36 months available on the new 2013 Dodge Dart SE (25A) to qualified customers on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance on 2012/2013 Jeep Compass, Patriot and 2013 Dodge Dart models. Example: 2013 Dodge Dart SE (25A) with a Purchase Price of $16,880, with a $0 down payment, financed at 0.0% for 36 months equals 78 bi-weekly payments of $217.69; cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $16,880. ♦Based on R. L. Polk Canada Inc. sales data. Calendar year to date retail vehicle registrations. ¤Based on 2014 EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Transport Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. 2014 Dodge Grand Caravan – Hwy: 7.9 L/100 km (36 MPG) and City: 12.2 L/100 km (23 MPG). 2014 Jeep Cherokee Sport - Hwy: 6.4 L/100 km (44 MPG) and City: 9.6 L/100 km (29 MPG). 2014 Dodge Journey SE 2.4 L 4-speed automatic – Hwy: 7.7 L/100 km (37 MPG) and City: 11.2 L/100 km (25 MPG). 2013 Dodge Dart AERO – Hwy: 4.8 L/100 km (59 MPG) and City: 7.3 L/100 km (39 MPG). 2013 Civic Touring 1.8 L 16-valve, SOHC, i-VTEC ® 4-cylinder Automatic – Hwy: 5.0 L/100 km (56 MPG) and City: 6.2 L/100 km (45 MPG). 2013 Elantra L 1.8 L Dual CVVT DOHC 16V Engine Automatic – Hwy: 5.2 L/100 km (54 MPG) and City: 7.2 L/100 km (39 MPG). 2013 Corolla 1.8 L 4-Cylinder DOHC 16V VVT-i DIS ETCS-I Engine Manual – Hwy: 5.6 L/100 km (50 MPG) and City: 7.4 L/100 km (38 MPG). 2013 Focus SE with optional Super Fuel Economy package and 2.0 L I4 Direct Injection engine with 6-speed automatic– Hwy: 4.8 L/100 km (59 MPG) and City: 7.2 L/100 km (39 MPG). ^Based on 2014 Ward’s Middle Cross Utility segmentation. **Based on 2014 Ward’s upper small sedan costing under $25,000. ❖Real Deals. Real Time. Use your mobile device to build and price any model. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

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$

19,998

$

PURCHASE PRICE INCLUDES $2,000 CONSUMER CASH* AND FREIGHT.

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Price: $25,690.

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2014 DODGE JOURNEY CANADA VALUE PACKAGE

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44 MPG MP

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Price: $31,690.

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CANADA’S BEST-SELLING MINIVAN FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS

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FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN

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Price: $32,990.

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FOR 96 MONTHS WITH $0 DOWN 2014 Dodge Journey R/T AWD shown.

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* $1,500 / $2,000 cash purchase incentive is available on select 2013 Civic / Fit models. Honda cash purchase incentive cannot be combined with special lease or finance offers. #$500 bonus cash available on all 2013 Civic / Fit models. #/* Honda cash purchase incentive and bonus will be deducted from negotiated price after taxes.**MSRP is $16,935 / $16,075 including freight and PDI of $1,495 based on a new a 2013 Civic DX model FB2E2DEX / 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2DEX. PPSA, license, insurance, taxes, and other dealer charges are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. #/* Offers valid from January 3rd through January 31st, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Prices and/or payments shown do not include representative PPSA lien registration and lien registering agentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fees, which are due at time of delivery. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your Honda retailer for full details.